Long ago I married myself to the Microsoft technology stack. For a long long, that meant you were a Visual Source Safe user. VSS's suckiness is well known and well documented. I've been happily using the free license for SourceGear Vault at home for the last 3 years and professionally I've been using whatever my clients had in place (VSS, Vault, or Team Foundation usually). When I came to CSG in late 2006, I was introduced to Subversion (SVN). I'd certainly read about SVN and knew it was a very popular open source source control system. While the adjustment period was a little...
I received a voicemail (via Callwave mind you) from my dad over the weekend that went something like this:
I seem to have deleted all of my contacts out of Outlook Express for letter's A - M... I'm wondering what I need to do to get these back. Call me when you get this.
I should have some kind of backup and recovery process in place for my family (I'm Brownsberger tech support), but I don't. I'd be happy if I had a fraction of what Scott's got in place. Until recently this stuff, while entirely necessary, was a big hassle -...